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Born in Toronto 27 years ago, Dave Kerr started to skate as soon as he could toddle, played organized hockey (for boys up to 15) when he was 9, was a star player in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association when he was 12. He got his high-school education (and an "expense account") by playing hockey at Iroquois Falls for the Abitibi Paper Co., which made a practice of rounding up the best available amateurs to keep its employes in good temper during a long Canadian winter. He went to McGill University while playing for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association...
Last week Toledo's Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. was going ahead with plans to manufacture and market Iceolite, at a price of $2.50 per sq. ft. A rink 100 ft. by 50 would thus cost $12,500, but would last a long time. Scratches and shavings cut by skate blades could be melted back smoothly into the rink's surface with flat irons (see cut). The irons would also be used to meld the cracks between the blocks after they are laid down. Liquid Iceolite is poured into molds, congeals into blocks...
Queen Katherine Avila Brooks, 17 year old high school student from Tulsa, Oklahoma, held a snowless court in the hills of New Hampshire this week-end as 1200 girls from as far away as Mexico City converged on Dartmouth to dance and skate, but not to ski, at the twenty-eighth annual mid-winter extravaganza...
...Cuban Margot Ros, 12, soft-eyed pianist-prodigy who played in Havana concerts at three. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, introducing her at a Philadelphia children's concert two years ago, called her "one of the greatest products of Cuba." She loves Shirley Temple, ''would dearly love to skate in the snow...
Bingham also expressed the hope that money would be forthcoming for the projected hockey rink. "It is too bad," he declared, "that we cannot do more for boys who want to skate...